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Magic Theatre Announces Four Additional Performances of Octavio Solis' SE LLAMA CHRISTINA

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"[Playwright Octavio] Solis' rich intermarriage of gritty expletive-studded and lyrically allusive language carries [Se Llama Cristina] a long way," declared Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle. "And the fully formed, simmering performances of San José, Hayon and Gnapp keep it riveting."

"Passionately directed by Loretta Greco, '[Se Llama] Cristina' emerges as one of Solis most spare and most intimate works," said Karen D'Souza of the San Jose Mercury News. "Once again Solis captures the shifting quicksand of human experience with wit and lyricism."

This incredible, multi-layered fever dream from the mind of cherished Bay Area playwright Octavio Solis places the audience in the midst of a mystery as a young man and woman wake up in a strange room, and must piece together their past identities and relationship while they construct a new future and grapple with the possibility of being parents.

Octavio Solis is a playwright and director living in San Francisco. Se Llama Cristina is his third play to be produced at Magic Theatre. His first play at Magic was produced during the 1990-91 season (Man of the Flesh), followed in 1996 by Prospect, which was hailed "a thoroughly fascinating, funny, scary, penetrating and gently uplifting dark-night-of-the-soul" (San Francisco Chronicle). Solis also returned to Magic in 2010 to direct Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size to critical acclaim. Solis' work has been produced at various theatres around the country, including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group, Marin Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Teatro Vista in Chicago.

The stellar cast of four includes Sean San José as Man, Sarah Nina Hayon as Woman, Rod Gnapp as Abel, and Karina Gutérrez as Girl.

Magic Theatre is located in San Francisco at Fort Mason Center in Building D on the 3rd floor (entrance to the parking lot at Marina Blvd. and Buchanan St.). Tickets prices range from $22 to $62. For more information or to purchase tickets, go online to www.magictheatre.org or call the box office at 415-441-8822.





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